Unify your defenses and simplify GLBA compliance.

Banks, credit unions, and other financial services firms have a legal obligation to protect consumer information. The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) of 1999 outlines these specific responsibilities in the interest of consumer privacy. These requirements mandate that US-based financial institutions create an information security program to:

Ensure the security and confidentiality of customer information;

Protect against any anticipated threats or hazards to the security or integrity of such information; and

Protect against unauthorized access to or use of customer information that could result in substantial harm or inconvenience to any customer.

The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) supports this mission by providing extensive, evolving guidelines for compliance. The FFIEC IT handbook outlines these specific requirements, and we’ve mapped these against AlienVault’s Unified Security Management capabilities.

Achieving compliance with GLBA is far from trivial. It requires implementing essential security controls for asset configuration, vulnerability assessment, threat detection, behavioral monitoring and log management. And that’s not all. IT staff then needs to monitor these controls and correlate the data being produced by them - across the entire network, in real-time. Traditional security products only perform one or two of these functions, leaving the security analyst left with figuring out how to make these disparate tools work together to provide a single, unified view into the security posture.

AlienVault’s Unified Security Management (USM) platform provides an alternative. One that delivers a fast and cost-effective way for financial services firms with limited security staff and budget to address their GLBA compliance needs. Leveraging field-proven open source technologies, AlienVault USM provides users with an automated offering for Asset Discovery, Vulnerability Assessment, Behavioral Monitoring, Threat Detection and Security Intelligence & Event Correlation. With all of the essential security controls built-in, AlienVault USM puts complete security visibility within fast and easy reach of smaller security teams who need to do more with less.